Difference between revisions of "Setup SMTP in Grafana"

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== Step by Step ==
 
== Step by Step ==
  
'''1. Prepare Gmail Account'''  
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'''Step 1 : Prepare Gmail Account'''  
 
  Just go to https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps and set allow less secure apps to ON.
 
  Just go to https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps and set allow less secure apps to ON.
 
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<br>2. Update and install SSMTP in Grafana server.
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'''Step 2 : Update and install SSMTP'''
# sudo apt-get update
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root@gejoreuy:~# sudo apt-get update
# sudo apt-get install ssmtp
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root@gejoreuy:~# sudo apt-get install ssmtp
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Revision as of 17:24, 15 May 2020

Introduction

Grafana is a tools for visualisation dashboard monitoring which work together with various datasource.
In its use, we'll need SMTP activated to do some functionality like email alerting, notification, or invitation request.

Assumptions

In this page, we assumed that we already know about Grafana and have it run in a server.
In our example, we are going to use Google Gmail as SMTP server.

Step by Step

Step 1 : Prepare Gmail Account

Just go to https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps and set allow less secure apps to ON.



Step 2 : Update and install SSMTP

root@gejoreuy:~# sudo apt-get update
root@gejoreuy:~# sudo apt-get install ssmtp